Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-11
From WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Alezs. GAzETTE.l
WASHINGTON D. c.. April II, 1887

special Correspondence of the Alexs. GAzETTE.l
WASHINGTON, D. c.. April II, 1887.
A subcommittee Of the Senate finance
committee. composed of MessrH. Allison,
Beck. Morrill, Mcpherson and Aldrich, met
at the rooms of The finance COMMITTEES of the
Senate this morning to consider the subject
Of the INTERPRETATION of imports into this
country. by which the government is de-
irauded out of many millions annually. The
committee should have met last Monday,
Int Il has been impossible for them to come.
together before to-day.
The senatorial iunketlng committees
will soon start on their summer trips.
That composed of Messrs. Platt, Cullum and
Black burn, to examine into the affairs OF
the Indian traders. will meet on the 25th
in St. Louis, and start on their trip soon
after. The Dawes committee to visit and
inspect the several Indian reservations will
start at an early date.
Mrs. Lyons, widow of the late Hon.
James Lyons of Richmond, who YVES en-
ployed for some time in the office OF the
recorder of deeds of this city, has succeed
ed in obtaining an $40 place in the treas
ury Department.
Senator Pugh, of Alabama, who now lives
here, says that shortly after the war ne
gained cotton claim here and had SlO,Ooo
in his pocket. At that time the site OF tne
house in which he lives and for which ne
paws high rent was in snipe pond, sur
rounded by pasture lots for butcher whose
slauEhter house was nearer the w mite
House than his house now is. dis SlO.0OO
could have brought all those lots then, and
he be millionaire now, but the idea had
not then entered the mind of man that the
city would ever extend to them.
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, when
asked to-day the true reason of the late re-
publican defeat in his State, said it was the
result of freak which no body could ex'
plain; "but," said he, Rhode Island is a
republican State, and will show herself to
| be so at the next election"
The lot south OF the White House was
filled to-day with all sorts of children, white
| and black, with their mothers or nurses,
rolling eggs. 1t is estimated that not less
| than Eve thousand children were on the lot.
The grass was green and the children were
dressed in lively colors, so the scene was
pretty and animated one, and was witnessed
and enjoyed by the Presidents wife from
the windows of the White House. At half
past one the doors of that House were
thrown open to the little ones, and as many
as chose passed in rapid review before the
| President.
A large portion of this city is without wa
ter to-day, the main pipe that supplied 1t
having burst, and most Of the housekeepers
| in The drought district are in straits, as be-
sides the ordinary inconvenience resulting
| from such an accident, this was their wash
day.
A Philadelphia democrat here to day says
it is we'll known in this city that break has
occurred between the President and Mr.
Randall, and also That it is permanent, and
that, too, though Mr.. Randall who went to
Chicago to work for Bayard, transferred his
support to Cleveland. He says that no mat
ter what else Mr. Randall may be accused
of, nobody can truthlully say he Is mug
wump.
Mr.. Edward P. Turner, of The Plsins,
Fauquier county, Va, who was recently
appointed U. s. Commercial Agent by the
State Department to the Tonga Islands, but
who declined the commission, was appoint
ed on Saturday by the President to the Con-
sulate of Mozambique, east coast OF Africa
Mr.. Turner was appointed from New York,
| at the request of the Hon. Perry Belmont,
| whose district is charged with the commits
sion.
The fact that among the recent appointeos TO
lucrative positions here outside the civil service
restriction are sons OF Senators Morgan and Pugh
| who up to a recent date were by no means enam-
ored Of the administrations civil service policy
is said by some here to indicate disposition on
the Presidents part to make IS many influential
| friends in the South as possible.
| Mr.. Cutting, the famous Texas editor, whose
affair broue ht two ministers, special envoy and
consul to grief is attempting to stir the State
department about its delay i'll enforcing the pay
ment of his claim of $4,000 against Mexico, but
| the department doesn't seem to DO willing to be
stirred up on any such account.
or the employees in the Treasury Department
credited to Virginia al are put down as from tho
Sth congressional district and the other districts
| about each. Less than one third of the entire
! number have been appointed during the present
| administration, and some oven Of them arc repub-
| licans.